By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on November 13, 2020
by Jessica Colon Mayoset Grace Kmillah came into this world on 07/23/2020 at 3:05am. She weighed 2.7lb and was 14 inch. She was so tiny and fragile I though she wouldn’t make it. The year before I had a miscarriage, so we didn’t want to get our hopes up. I have been waiting for her for […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on October 6, 2020
“You realize that you don’t have the choice to protect your child the way a “typical” parent would. The protection of my daughter was in the hand of trusted medical professionals…”
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on July 24, 2020
by Autumn Schwertfeger Life is stillLife is more simple now and yet it feels more complicated than ever beforeThe world has changed, it’s evolved into this new realityAll because of COVID-19The virus took us all by surpriseIt turned the world upside downIt made all the soap, toilet paper, and masks disappearIt made the people disappear […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on June 20, 2020
by Lindsay Nolan I was scrolling through Instagram at 3 a.m. while my husband, Danny slept on the couch next to me. My internal clock was off a bit; the NICU does that to you. It was about two weeks into our stay at the hospital and I was deciding on which filters to use […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on April 21, 2020
by Kristina Mulligan This world is in scary times as we deal with a global pandemic. COVID-19 is causing fear in many and panic in others. In some way, however, we all feel the anxiety – and possibly the soreness of dry hands. Social distancing and isolation has become the way of life for many, and […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on April 17, 2020
by Nicole Lauer My Dearest Kade, It’s been two years since we said hello and since we had to say goodbye. 99 minutes with you was not enough time, but I thank God every day that I was given that time with you. We miss you every single day. You would be getting so big, […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on April 9, 2020
By Ali Dunn I “attended” a virtual happy hour the other day. It was nice to see people’s faces and have conversations with friends even if they were mostly about isolation and COVID-19. We were all sharing stories from our days, tales of working from home, schooling from home, and trying to create some semblance […]
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By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on January 16, 2020
by Ali Dunn When my twins were born at 28 weeks, I was unprepared to deal with life in the NICU. I had never seen a premature baby. I had never toured a NICU. I didn’t know how much trauma a NICU experience could create. As I was wheeled down the hall to the NICU […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on December 23, 2019
by Sandra Hunt I had a friend that didn’t want to see pictures of my baby in the NICU, hooked up to wires and tubes. It was too “graphic”, she said. My baby spent 45 days in the NICU. If you don’t want to see these pictures or hear this story, you’re not interested in […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on December 19, 2019
by Jennifer Schwertfeger 15 years ago, my life changed after giving birth to my daughter Grace, at only 24 weeks. I had a high-risk pregnancy, that lead to an early preterm birth, I never imagined that grace would be born 16 weeks prematurely, I wasn’t prepared for any of the challenges that would lie ahead. […]